Jim Henry begins his third season as the Robert J.H. Kiphuth
Head Coach of women’s swimming and diving at Yale in
2014-2015. Henry’s first two seasons saw immense
success and improvement for the Bulldogs as 18 of the possible 23
school records have been reset during his tenure. He looks to
continue to improve the team’s performance at Ivy League
Championships and qualify more athletes to the NCAA Division I
Championships this year.

In his first season at Yale, Henry, along with assistant coach
Dani Korman and diving coach Chris Bergère, led the Bulldogs
to a 5-2 winning season in Ivy League dual meet competition.
In addition, the Bulldogs took fourth place at the Ivy League
Conference Championships. Eva Fabian, Callie Fosburgh, Alex
Forrester, Cynthia Tsay, and Joan Weaver earned All-Ivy First Team
honors and Cassidy Lapp and Paige Meneses earned All-Ivy Second
Team honors. Three new Ivy League records were set: Forrester
in the 100-yard butterfly (51.57) and 200-yard butterfly (1:54.60)
and Callie Fosburgh, Alex Forrester, Cynthia Tsay and Joan Weaver
in the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:18.44).

The Bulldogs qualified two athletes, Fabian and Forrester, for
the NCAA Division I Swimming Championships. Henry coached
Forrester to a ninth place finish in the 200-yard butterfly and a
15th place finish in the 50-yard freestyle, and Fabian
to a 23rd place finish in the 1650-yard freestyle.
The Bulldogs finished in 34th place in the team rankings
at NCAA Championships and Forrester earned All-American honors in
both of her events.

Outside of the collegiate season, Henry co-coached Fabian to a
third place finish at U.S. Open Water National Championships in the
10 km open water race and a third place finish at the World
Championships in the 25 km in Barcelona, Spain.

Henry’s first season at Yale also saw success outside of
the pool as the team was given CSCAA Scholastic All-American Honors
for the 25th highest GPA in the nation. The
Bulldogs earned a team GPA of 3.44 in the fall semester, which
placed them as the third highest Ivy League school behind Brown and
Harvard.

In his second season at Yale, Henry led the Bulldogs to a 4-3
Ivy League record and a third-place finish at the 2014 Ivy League
Championships. Fabian earned Ivy League Swimmer of the Meet
and Lilybet MacRae earned Ivy League Diver of the Meet honors.
Nine athletes earned All-Ivy honors; Fabian, MacRae, Sydney
Hirschi and Emma Smith earned All-Ivy First Team honors and
Michelle Chintanaphol, Olivia Jameson, Casey Lincoln, Anna Wujciak
and Kina Zhou earned All-Ivy Second Team honors. Two
athletes, Fabian and MacRae, qualified for and competed at the 2014
NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships.

Again, Henry co-coached Fabian to a third place finish at U.S.
Open Water National Championships in the 10 km open water race and
a second place finish at the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships in
Maui, Hawaii.

Henry has been named as a United States National Team Coaching
Member for the past three seasons, for Laura Sogar in the 2012-2013
season and for Fabian in the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 seasons.

Henry’s previous collegiate coaching experience includes
five years as assistant coach and one year as associate head coach
for University of Texas, three years at the University of Denver,
and three years as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for
Southern Methodist University.

Prior to getting into collegiate coaching, Henry was the
aquatics director and head swimming coach for the Allen (Texas)
Independent School District in 1998-99 and the aquatics director
and head swim coach at The Peddie School in Hightstown, N.J. (from
1995-98). Peddie finished fourth at the 1997 U.S. Nationals and was
second at the U.S. Open that year. Henry led Peddie to the 1998
Junior National Team Championship and developed 31 high school
All-Americans as well.